Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-09-16

all the power that Inan exercises at thfs
day existed years and thousands grid
thousands OF years ago in the brain of
MAD, and l say, if It were
my duty tonight to follow that
line Of argument it would be pleasant to
trace the prsgress of humanity from the
hair-covered, long-nailed, chattering, bru-
talized hurnan being that existed in the re-
mote ages, up to the highest and most per-
feet developed of humanity before us now
It would be a most marvellous thing to find
oJt how this reasoning sentient thing ever
could exist human, potential thing that
would develop itself to this extent. lean
not do that. | am here for the purpose of
making speech. | am here for the pur
pose and in behalf of the Directors of the
State Agricultural Society to welcome you
all. Welcome to the feast CT reason and
flow of soul which you yourself have
prepared and have provided, and have
permitted TO their keeping. We may go
farther dowa.and trace out the development
of our own Golden State, of which we are
SO excessively proud. | believe if opened
that subject discussion would be an apos-
trophe to the city in which this exhibition
is held. | remember almost the first words
that ever heard and have knowledge OF
were the City of Sacramento. There was a
! time, when all over the length and breadth
| OF our land the City of Sacramento was
! known, the name was known, the people
were known-the people who broke down
| the barriers that walled in .savagery and
| kept it from the gaze of civilization. But
| there was no man that eVel
! thought or had reason to think, in
! those remote days, of the position the State
of California would take in the future, that
was to be so near. | have said now about
| all that is incumbent upon me to say but
cannot leave this stage without one Other
remark, as | stand here in sight of old SUIT
ter's fort, and it is a thought which in.
spires me to speak and you to listen, an6
it is enough to say about the men wh6
broke down the barriers of this sayagery
and made possible this wonderful develop
ment. SO you might this highland your
sons-wave Tor moment the magic wand
of memory athwart the magic mirrors o.
the unbroken brow of the past and pause
for moment amid all the rushing of the
present, and listen for moment to the
Ginning of your memory bells, and you
will see before you a land as fair as the
garden of the Lord illimitable in all the
elements of future empire, under no do
minion Of sayagery; but we shall have I
people that will make the desert smooth
| who shall SOW the waste with grain, who
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shall bloom like the garden of Hesperides
and from the rock-bound East to the shores
of the mighty West, from the everglades Of
the Sunny South and, aye, over the cloud
capped Sierras like rushing wind shall
come the response which shall yield to law
of labor, and in that word there is nc
magic. And now. after the lapse Of
thirty years you look back and you see
this wilderness that was so vast in extent
covered up with a people that come here
to make a grand civilization. Where you
heard the powwow of the Indian now
stands the school-house; where nothing
but a sayagery in remote time in the
world there now arises church spires
and crosses, and intelligence, civilization
peace, plenty, prosperity, are all around
Labor is king and loyalty is crown. Thus
under the stars as we stand here there is an
absolute fulfillment of the prophecy of the
old Quaker poet who wrote forty year:
ago $50 shall the hardy pioneer &C
ioyfully on his way and wed the
Penobscot waters to San Francisco Bay. tc
make the desert place smooth and see {
place that man bears with liberty and law
the Bible in his hand. The mighty ives
shall bless the East, and sea shall answer
sea, and mountain unto mountain call
praise God, for all are free" Applause